My fiancé and I got engaged a couple of months ago. We both have enough money saved to pay for some of the wedding ourselves, like my dress, tuxes, flowers, and a couple of other things. However, i come from a middle class family of moderate means, and my parents quite honestly don't have the money to pay for the wedding. My fiancé's family, however, is wealthy and has a lot of money. We want a nice wedding, nothing insanely extravagant, but we don't want to have to sacrifice having a nice wedding because we can't afford it all. Our dream wedding costs around $20,000. We're paying for about $12,000 of it ourselves. How do we ask his parents to pay for the rest? What we need help paying for is mostly venue, food, drinks, rentals, and the cake.

Fiance and I are not religious, but we have family members (like very southern grandparents) who are. We don't want religion to be a part of our ceremony because it's our day and our marriage, but we also don't want to offend our family members. Do we just not tell them that it won't be religious and let them find out day of? Or do we give them a heads up beforehand?

My best friend through the past few years and I have always talked about being each other's MOHs. She wants me to be hers. I haven't officially asked any of my bridal party to be anything official yet. She and I have grown apart the past year or so, and I have another best friend that I'm much closer with and would rather have as my MOH, and she'll also do a much better job in the MOH duties too. How do I tell first best friend that she's not the MOH? I've thought of having two MOHs, but second-mentioned best friend knows that first-mentioned and I are not close anymore and knows that I don't want her to be my MOH, so I don't want to offend second-mentioned just to spare the feelings of first-mentioned.

I will most likely be getting married in Florida. I cannot decide between having a spring or a summer wedding. FL summer weddings are hot and potentially rainy (because it rains like every afternoon, so that's risky), however, waiting until June would allow us to get married on our 7 year anniversary, which I think would be so special. We definitely want to get married outside, so climate is something that we have to consider.

I have no idea how much money to give my sister as a wedding gift. If I go to a friends wedding I normally give $200-250. Based on what I give my friends, what would be appropriate to give my only sibling?

I plan to get married soon and my fiance and I want to try to achieve our dream wedding where the leaves are changing color and either it s raining or stormy outside. I d really appreciate the help thank you!